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Neo4j enables up to 100x faster analytics and real-time decision making
Neo4j confirms major new capabilities enabling cloud or self-managed customers to increase analytical queries by up to 100x faster , run both transactional and analytical processing within one database and automatically track data changes in real time for faster mission-critical decision making . “ Neo4j ’ s integration of operational and analytical workloads within a single database is now enhanced by the power of parallel runtime and change data capture , empowering our customers with real-time insights , cost-efficient data management and simplified architecture ,” said Sudhir Hasbe , Chief Product Officer , Neo4j .
New capabilities and benefits include :
Up to 100X faster performance of analytical queries – via Parallel Runtime capability , adding concurrent threads across multiple CPU cores to run analytical graph queries . Neo4j also leverages a technique called morsel-based parallelism to optimise this capability for greater scalability , better resource utilisation and seamless multitasking .
Faster mission-critical decisions – now enabled by native Change Data Capture ( CDC ) automating real-time tracking and notification of data changes in the database . CDC is also integrated with Neo4j Connector for Kafka and Confluent , which streams these changes for easier consumption across other data platforms and applications
Easier Knowledge Graph creation – via new embedding models that predict and find missing relationships and infer new connections within an organisation ’ s knowledge graph for greater semantic understanding
New pathfinding algorithms – making complex workflows more efficient by identifying the best sequence and critical paths between nodes on a graph .
Nutanix appoints Shree Balachandran as its first A / NZ Cloud Economist
Shree Balachandran , Australia and New Zealand Cloud Economist , Nutanix
Nutanix has appointed Shree Balachandran to the newly created position of Australia and New Zealand ( A / NZ ) Cloud Economist .
The industry veteran will work closely with the local Nutanix leadership and sales team , as well as the partner community , to help organisations achieve greater value in their cloud environments .
Balachandran is based in Melbourne and brings more than 25 years of strategy , sales and operations experience from leading technology companies such as HPE and Oracle .
He said cloud economics is front of mind as companies retreat from ‘ all-in ’ strategies and cloud costs including ingress and egress continue to soar .
“ Many companies in Australia and New Zealand that said a few years ago , ‘ we ’ re putting it all in public cloud ’, hit a crossroads at about 15 % of their data – where going any further is either impossible or prohibitively expensive ,” said Balachandran .
“ This has crystalised the idea of hybrid multicloud strategies as the way forward , but many are still unsure of how to get there , what data and applications should sit where and for how long , and where they should focus their investments . Nutanix is building the blueprint for how they can do this and I ’ m looking forward to helping the company educate the market and execute on its vision .”
Balachandran ’ s appointment comes as Australian companies are expected to spend $ 19.9 billion , and New Zealand companies $ 3 billion , on cloud services this year alone . It also follows Microsoft , which partners with Nutanix on its Clusters ( NC2 ) hybrid cloud platform , announcing it would invest $ 5 billion to expand its hyperscale cloud and AI infrastructure in Australia .
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